Afterwordstch sunday night on cspans book tv. Festivities for hanukkah included the lighting of the menorah and washington, d. C. Participated in the lighting that with the friends of lubavitch. This is 40 minutes. Welcome. Thent to greet all thousands of brave souls who did not look at the Weather Report when they planned to be hair hand that may nor the actual weather when they took the trip over and joined us for this Lighting Ceremony of the National Hanukkah menorah here on the ellipse and washington, d. C. I am the executive Vice President of american friends of lubavitch the sponsoring organization for this event. Thank you. There delighted to have opportunity to celebrate hanukkah, the festival of lights, which marks our religious freedom here on americans front lawn. This is a privately sponsored event. Condense theto program some because of the inclement weather but we are going to take care of all of the major components and we have our special guests that all the kids are w
The mission is complete. A twenty Year Prison Sentence on corruption charges for a confidant of the impeached south korean president. A former aide to egypt exmilitary chief of staff says that if his old boss is homed top secret files will be released to the public and under way the trial of a palestinian teenager who made global headlines after slapping an israeli soldier. And for the teenage snowboarder taking all the. Big. Hits the heights when called in the women. The u. S. Secretary of state is warning that ending combat operations against eisel will not guarantee the armed groups defeat Rex Tillerson has been the draw. A meeting of the Global Coalition to defeat i saw in kuwait to listen says the u. S. Will provide a further two hundred Million Dollars to help stabilize areas in syria that used to be under eisel control get the latest on the ground in syria in just a moment with aljazeera as jamal as well as in go see enter but first lets go live to saudis a dan whos abt that mee
We will go live to washington. Germanys defense minister criticizes the United States for moves to credit spending on the united nations. Europe must take on more of the military burden in nato. We will be live at the Berlin Film Festival where they are showing a comedy western involving a miniature horse, damsels, villains, and Robert Pattinson. Sarah i am sarah kelly. Welcome to the program, thanks for joining us. The turkish german journalist dennis you chill has been Dennis Deniz Yucel has been released, but several journalists have been sentenced for life for their involvement in the queue, but this journalist is facing charges in turkey accused of terrorist propaganda, and you they are saying up to 18 years as part of what has been a major crackdown on free speech in the country. For the time being his supporters in germany and his family are celebrating. Reporter this foreign minister was the bearer of good moves news. Dennis yucel is free. He is on his way to istanbul. Reporter
Averages. Of records last week. We keep seeing the record count climb for the major averages. The nasdaq has dipped into the red. Earlier it touched a record. The focus continues to be on earnings as well as the fed raised. Moversainly have some that are pretty significant weighing down any gains in the s p 500 is hasbro. To do with the Ripple Effect from the bankruptcy filing of toys r us. State street shares are down even after the Company Numbers beat estimates. Analysts are questioning individual components of that anduding etf net outflows servicing fees not rising as much as estimated according to hore. Ore isis glenn s v. F. Corporation the Apparel Company coming out and beating estimates as well. It says strength was driven by broadbased strength across international and director consumer platforms. We are also watching the u. S. Dollar as we continue to talk about who could be the next head of the Federal Reserve. Over the past week we have seen the dollar climbing for four of
Stateside as a special council pushes ahead with allegations, and some concern about tax reform, the implications that might mean for a key legislative win for donald trump the other big news crossing was suggestion thats overall Corporate Tax rate might end up around 20 by 2022 which is underwhelming in terms of expectations for a lore rate of 15 . Just fading on wall street also in asia today disappointment around the data sharper than expected slowdown in the factory growth orders all of that is being digested in europe as a number of corporates are crossing the tape. In the uk, were close to the 7,500 mark as we inch forward by ten points the French Market trades on the flat line. Were not showing you the dax as it is closed today the rest of the markets open, leading into the green the exception is the zurich stock market fade big 0. 1 getting into the big earnings, bp posted an underlying replacement cost profit of 1 1. 8 billion, that has beaten expectations they announced they